Grim is pissing on people’s legs and saying it’s raining
Hotchkiss is an oligarch nursery
Platner’s wife is not Jewish either by religion or heritage
people don’t just get Totenkopf tats on a hoot unless they’re just willfully ignorant and incurious to a degree that would also disqualify them
the whole thing is just super dumb; like, he knew what it was, either when he got it or shortly after, he knew for years and didn't bother to get it covered, this is all completely obvious and any argument to the contrary is just an insult to our intelligence
I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it
the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims
Quite a lot worse than I remember in Trump I, though maybe cameras are better/less forgiving
"Working class" has been a very vague term for a very long time, but we've hit a stage where it's a self-chosen label for any white man who is openly racist and/or has a beard and some muscles, which is inevitably going to lead people to some completely stupid conclusions.
Sharpton: "The problem is not Trump. The problem is us. What happened to us?"
The issue is that the accusation is "he is either a nazi or such a dumbass that it's disqualifying regardless" and the defense is "he's not a nazi." That's not an actual argument that he's qualified!
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now
This.
Regardless of whatever whiz-bam cool "feature" is touted, these military ghouls don't actually care if it does a better job at finding targets.
The real utility of a tool like Claude in this situation is *accountability dodging*.
"The computer told me to do it."
Oyster Boy say the DSCC didn't want him to run...
zero percent chance that Susan Collins doesn't immediately drop all of this the second the general election starts if this guy wins the primary - the DoD is 100% sitting on the file on this guy and will send it to her the second he wins the nomination
Critical thread on Platner, who is becoming the Democrats' Roy Moore (i.e. a test of whether we have any boundaries at all).
The Pentagon recently signed a contract to increase Patriot interceptor production to 1000 per year. Meanwhile, the US and the Gulf states have likely already burned through twice that number in less than a week.
Yup- and his successor will be subjected to withering bad faith attacks the whole time. I remember all the screaming about an Apology Tour as Barack Obama tried to rebuild US relationships with the Middle East.
we can at least fairly say that a near-dominant (but not always!) portion of the political & foreign establishments have been fairly enthusiastic toward Iran regime change while mostly hoping Cuba would do it itself, and one of the reason they were pissed at Obama is he was more reasonable than them
Donald Trump slowly turning every Evangelical into an idolator and every liberal into a believer in Satan is a pretty good bit.
Their countries weren't given advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli attack and complained the U.S. had ignored their warnings that the war would have devastating consequences for the entire region.
I TOO WOULD LIKE TO SHOUT THIS OUT.
Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
if you're keeping score at home what's happening is this the department of war is running major combat operations in iran which may last just a few weeks maybe longer or maybe even forever and which are NOT a war but whose stated objective is unconditional surrender
Exactly right.
The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.
The US economy lost -92,000 jobs in February, a far cry from the +50,000 it was expected to gain. This is the 5th month out of the past 9 that has seen net job losses, for a total loss of -6,000 jobs over the past half year.
I *really* dislike the deployment of World War II, USA on Japan rhetoric, here, for reasons obvious (nukes, maximalist, not helpful) & otherwise.
Esp given USA did not in fact demand unconditional surrender (as indicated by Potsdam Declaration “Here are our terms…” & Byrnes note”).
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A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
92,000 jobs gone in a single month and the people who spent years screaming about “Biden’s economy” are suddenly very quiet. No pandemic. Just the consequences of reckless leadership.
HUGE payrolls miss, wow
Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev
